This is the only April Fool's joke I actually noticed this year. I agree about cluttering CPAN. Also the slight name deviation will most likely cause some installers a headache at some point. He could have made his joke without actually throwing it up there with a note on use.perl or something with a link to a mock up.

Though I must repent and confess I chuckled at
In the absence of hash keys and array indexes, users will need to adopt different techniques for extracting individual data values. The most popular approach will likely be regular expressions but this is Perl and there is always more than one way to do it, so split() and substr() are likely to be popular alternatives.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

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